[laxd]

# I was always struck by how much it resembled meat in both texture and taste.

Say what? How can a mollusc taste like meat?

[bookofjoe]

mollusc [sic]: 'An invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses.'

[laxd]

Mollusc is a perfectly legal way of writing mollusk if that's what you mean. And everyone knows that whales evolved from hungry beach snails around 50mya.

[bookofjoe]

>And everyone knows that whales evolved from hungry beach snails around 50mya.

Favorite thing I've read this week.